“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] “The nurses are sicker than the patients,” Jane said she heard one of the nurses say this morning.

[...] He is not only working with patients and using art as a therapy for them, not only having them paint as therapy, you see, but he is also working on the idea that some paintings in themselves have a healing effect. [...]

[...] The patients do not yet realize that there is nothing wrong with them at all.

[...] Jane sat waiting patiently in trance.)

(I’d been commenting on her call tonight to a psychiatrist—Dr. Beahrs—who’d written her recently from Washington state, and of his informing her that another doctor out there is also using the Seth material ideas in dealing with her patients. [...]

[...] Some of the drugs given to “mental” patients impede the natural flow of dream therapy to varying degrees.

[...] He would encourage the patient to tune into the private oracle in order to ascertain his or her own purposes in physical life, and to reinforce spiritual strength. [...]

(Humorous.) The stream flows down from high inaccessible mountains, but it will all pass by if you are patient.

(“I made some connection between that wheelchair and this rocker, thinking it was a wheelchair, and that big portrait you painted of the patient in a wheelchair in the county hospital where your father was,” she said. [...]

[...] Usually the patient cannot see that he brought about his own recovery, and was responsible for it, because he cannot admit that his own intents were responsible for his own illness. [...]

[...] Our friend accepted the invitation, with the proviso that he would come to the apartment providing his office was clear of patients by 9 PM. [...]

[...] Then I gave Pete Mary Krebs’s phone number, in Utilization Review at the hospital; she determines the level of patient care, reviews medical records, etc. [...]

[...] A lot of patients will be going home over the holidays, Georgia said, and those remaining, like Jane, would be moved elsewhere. [...]

[...] First had come her reactions to a group of upsetting letters she’d received this noon: One is a 20-page missive from a mental patient who wants returned to him all of the notes, objects, manuscripts, and books of poetry he’s sent her over the years: another is from a woman who informed us that she’s writing a book dictated by Seth: a third is a long letter from a man who’s claiming us as his counterparts, for reasons we can’t agree with. [...]

(“All of the personnel, patients, the entire community or social structure of such an establishment reinforce and promote the inner belief system about which they all congregate,” she continued. [...]

[...] Other tests that I recall made it clear that my heart and liver and internal organs were in good shape—but Doctor Kardon had seen them newly threatened by the vasculitis, and I felt, “My God, what a merry-go-round of disastrous expectations must everywhere color the medical profession and its practitioners and patients.” [...]

[...] The practice in hospitals of giving drugs to patients so that they will sleep entirely throughout the night is detrimental for this reason. [...]

[...] Doctors expect vision to [begin to] fail, for example, after the age of 30, and there are countless patient records that “prove” that such disintegration is indeed a biological fact.

Notice that Seth did not mention other topics until he gave the above advice—and that it was for the husband and those caring for the patient rather than for the patient herself. [...]

[...] The world is seen as a patient, sick in body, insane of mind, a thing that needs treatment, a Freudian and Darwinian monster. [...]